When Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, the nation was reeling from the Great Depression and was dissatisfied with the previous administration’s reluctance to ...

President Franklin Roosevelt called the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor a “date which will live in infamy,” in a famous address to the nation delivered after Japan’s deadly strike against U.S. naval ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s entire collection of speeches is now available online. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, made FDR’s Master Speech File ...

One recent morning, I heard a commentator say that if more of us had stood up and spoken out, we would have suffered Donald Trump for fewer than nine years. Is that true? Edmund Burke said, “The only ...

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pt. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- pt. 2. Political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton v. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- Argument ...